UMD Grad Jason Reynolds Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
Popular author of YA, children’s books about kids of color to receive $800K.
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A new poem by Joshua Weiner led off the summer prose poem issue at the online journal B O D Y.
William Cohen has been invited to serve as plenary speaker at the 2019 Dickens Day Conference.
Professor Emeritus Kent Cartwright presented a paper on “Forgiveness in Shakespeare's Comedies” at the biannual meeting of the Italian English Studies Association on September 6 at the University of Padua.
William Fargason's Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara has been awarded the 2019 Iowa Poetry Prize.
Oliver Gaycken presents at the XXVI Visible Evidence Conference.
Brian Richardson published “Unnatural Narratology: An Overview” in Chinese translation in English Studies, spring 2019, 154-64.
On October 12, Mark Fitzgerald will lead a poetry workshop at the Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax, Virginia.
Maud Casey's story, "The City Itself," is forthcoming in New England Review.
Martha Nell Smith will give an invited talk on the Humanities in the Digital Era at the Herrenhausen Symposium.
Peter Witte's essay, "Nearing 40," was published in Hobart. It was written as a nod to William Maxwell, after his essay "Nearing 90."